I highly recommend giving the book "Where is my flying car?" a read. It is a very idiosyncratic and unconventional book, written by an engineer rather than an a

I highly recommend giving the book "Where is my flying car?" a read. It is a very idiosyncratic and unconventional book, written by an engineer rather than an academic. He goes into great depth about how the FAA and NRC basically deliberately killed general aviation and nuclear energy, how this happened, and its implications regarding the "great stagnation" and the future of tech.